Word: smearing
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...theory, it should have been easy to draw off gastric juices through a tube and make a smear to find the distinctive cells which have been sloughed off by the cancer. But the results proved accurate in only one out of three cases, because nearly all the loose cancer cells went on down the intestinal tract or were destroyed by the stomach's digestive juices. Then Dr. Papanicolaou tried a device invented by Dr. Frederick G. Panico: a sausage-sized balloon with about 250 pieces of braided silk attached. The patient swallowed the balloon and about two feet...
...patients examined by the balloon method, operations later showed that 17 had cancer. The balloon-smear test had given a positive reaction in 14 of the cases and a suspicious reaction...
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...York's La Guardia Field, there was a smear of haze across the half moon; the summer night air was warm and humid. Most of the 55 passengers who crowded into the belly of the big, silent, high-tailed DC-4 were vacation-bound. At Northwest Airlines' special night-aircoach rates they could fly to Minneapolis for $47, or to Seattle, the end of the line, for $111-and only over night. Youngsters, husbands and wives, stenographers and a Roman Catholic priest (who had boarded the plane at the last minute) fastened their seat belts as the four...
...back in "God's country-Boston," after an extensive tour of Europe. Swinging a blackthorn shillelagh, Democrat Curley announced that he would be a candidate next year for a fifth term as mayor of Boston. About that fraud conviction? "Probably just a case of Mr. Roosevelt wanting to smear...